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A taster of Coast's trip to Ireland's northwest coast

A taster of Coast's trip to the storm-battered Atlantic shore of Ireland鈥檚 majestic northwest coast.

A taster of Coast's journey to the storm-battered Atlantic shore of Ireland鈥檚 majestic northwest coast. Neil OIiver's all at sea, relying on the life boat crews and air crews of the Atlantic rescue services to come to his aid. At Clifden Dick Strawbridge leads a team of radio experts who try to recreate the hundred year-old technology that Marconi developed to send the first commercial wireless messages across the Atlantic using steam generators powered by peat and a massive antenna, over half a mile long.

Miranda Krestovnikoff explores an odd little island where the mountain hare population is thriving; normally the animals are found high in the hills so why are these hares happy eating seaweed on the shore?

Alice Roberts unearths the remarkable remains of the oldest farm in the British Isles, a complex system of walls and houses laid out before Stonehenge; the ancient ruins of these Stone Age farmers have been buried in the peat for over 5000 years.Local legend says that Clew Bay has 365 islands one for each day of the year. Nick Crane investigates how this astonishingly beautiful and unusual landscape was created when Ireland was covered in ice.

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